...M.B. Saikrishna Purpose This study investigates how idiosyncratic deals (I-deals) shape employee engagement and performance, emphasizing the mediating mechanisms of work-life balance (WLB), perceived organizational support (POS) and intrinsic motivation (IM). Drawing on the job demands–resources...

.... Design/methodology/approach Utilizing an integrative literature review methodology, this study synthesizes empirical evidence from scholarly articles and applies psychological and management frameworks to systematically analyze the antecedents and consequences of quiet quitting on employee engagement...

...Debolina Dutta; Sushanta Kumar Mishra Purpose Scholars have highlighted personal interactions between employees and their leaders in an increasingly distributed and hybrid work environment as an essential mechanism that engages employees toward organizational goals. Enhanced employee engagement...

..., competitive environment. Findings We confirm previously identified limitations of EWE and, further, demonstrate that a social identity approach to leadership offers a promising avenue for public managers, not only by enhancing employee engagement but, more importantly, by enhancing retention and service...

...Mazen Malaeb; Grace K. Dagher; Leila Canaan Messarra Purpose As the work context is dynamically changing, enhancing employee engagement through personal and organizational means is still capturing the attention of organizations as well as human resources researchers and practitioners. Thus...

...Iqbal Mehmood; Keith Macky; Mark Le Fevre Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine perceptions of organisational politics (POP) as a mediator of the relationship between high-involvement work practices (HIWPs) and employee outcomes (trust in employer and employee engagement). Design...

...Vijay Kumar Shrotryia; Kirti Saroha; Upasana Dhanda Purpose The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the relationship between organizational commitment (OC) and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) as mediated by employee engagement (EE). The impact of different facets of OC (affective...

...Puneet Kumar; Nayantara Padhi Purpose The purpose of this study is to bring about an exhaustive measurement instrument of employee engagement and validate the same in Indian settings. Design/methodology/approach This descriptive and cross-sectional study initiates with reviewing the available...

...Shalini Srivastava; Lata Bajpai Purpose The present study intends to explore the underlying mechanism of the effect of personal growth initiative on employee engagement and intention to leave, in the presence of openness to experience and neuroticism as mediating variables. Support from...

...Debjani Ghosh; Tomoki Sekiguchi; Yuka Fujimoto Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop an additional perspective on when and why intrinsic motivation predicts employee engagement by presenting a contextual boundary of psychological detachment in relation to the relationship between...

... support for older workers along with protections from age bias and discrimination. Originality/value The study is one of the first to apply SET to the context of older workers, and has extended the SET literature through its examination of the role of employee engagement as a mediator...

... Corporate social responsibility Business performance Employee engagement Human resource management (HRM) Small to medium size enterprises (SME) The relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and human resource management (HRM) has very recently become an interesting...

...Sugumar Mariappanadar Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the possible consequences of the intra-individual level-based perceptions of participative, supportive and instrumental leadership styles and the dissonance factors of leadership styles perceptions on employee engagement using...

...Piyali Ghosh; Alka Rai; Apsha Sinha Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore whether perceptions of distributive, procedural and interactional justice are related to employee engagement, as an extension of the antecedents-consequences model of Saks (2006), and to examine the possibility...